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Venus Bivar

@vbivar.bsky.social

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Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford 🇨🇦; lives in York

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 3h

No shame! He has been amazing since the very start, with that joke video about renaming Lake Michigan.

Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 4h

My dad wrote a letter to the Oran the last time (Daniel Côté). I was on West Mabou Beach last week. I knew they'd come for it again. I was just hoping it wouldn't be so soon after the last attempt. Good luck with this next round of keeping the monsters at bay.

Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 4h

Never thought I'd be cheering for a billionaire, but these are not normal times.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago October 2025.......

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 1d

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 1d

This is so maddening. What a monumental waste of your time to mark a dissertation that was largely/entirely written by an algorithm.

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 1d

Very cold and very beautiful swim in autumnal Nova Scotia. Thanks to @donalh.bsky.social for teaching me that my cold tolerance is much higher than I thought it was.

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so sorry you are subject to such vitriol.

Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 6d

I love @globalelephants.org

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 7d

Sincere question: is there a single college or university anywhere that is approaching AI from a position of resistance?

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 6d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 11d

Home ♥️

Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 11d

As a former Chicago resident I can confirm that those folks don’t play.

Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 11d

It is! And after having another look, I realise that Resnais didn't film at just one location, but several different Pechiney sites. Even so, there was no ocean. Just rivers and factories.

Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 13d

I just learned a ton and a metric ton are the same thing. Why humans? Why? Why did we invent this linguistic confusion????

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 14d

Great little feature on the amazing research of @miskoaki.bsky.social and its growing Northern focus.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Indigenous-led thinktank launches Yellowhead North | CBC News

The Yellowhead Institute, an Indigenous-led think tank, wants to establish more of a presence across Dene and Inuit lands with research and writing on northern issues, including Indigenous governance,...

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 14d

Flower child.